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Chapter 22 The Great Depression and 23 The New Deal

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Great Depression   show
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Black Tuesday   show
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show period of increased stock trading and rising stock prices  
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Stock   show
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Buying on Margin   show
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show Demand by a broker that investors pay back loans made for stocks purchased on margin.  
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Stock Market   show
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show buying shares, betting that the stock market will continue to climb , and then selling the stock to make money quickly  
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show The highest import tax in American history to increase jobs by preventing cheaper European goods from entering the country,  
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show U.S. president during stock market crash, who rejected the Progressive emphasis on activist government to pursue a program of minimal business regulation, low taxes, and high tariffs; encouraged businesses to regulate themselves  
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Dust Bowl   show
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show Shantytowns that the unemployed built in the cities during the early years of the Depression; the name given to them shows that the people blamed Hoover directly for the Depression.  
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show Part of Hoover's plan to fix the economy during the Depression. This organization was set up by Congress to make loans to businesses  
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Bonus Expeditionary Force ("Bonus Army")   show
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show the 32nd president of the United States. He was president from 1933 until his death in 1945 during both the Great Depression and World War II.  
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show Refers to FDR's plan of Relief, Recovery, and Reform. Relief  
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show FDR Closed all banks until government examiners could investigate their financial condition; only sound/solvent banks were allowed to reopen  
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Public works   show
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show Franklin Roosevelt's economic reform program designed to solve the problems of the Great Depression  
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show the time between March 9 and June 16, 1933, when the Democratic party contolled Congress passed many laws to try to deal with the Great Depression  
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)   show
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show a law enacted in 1933 to raise crop prices by paying farmers to leave a certain amount of their land unplanted, thus lowering production to raise the value (price) for crops.  
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)   show
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show Reform: It separated banks into different categories. The banks couldn't gamble with the investments, so the investments were kept safe; protected bank depositors; forced a separation between commericial banking and investment banking  
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National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)   show
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National Industrial Recovery Act   show
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show Government agency that was part of the New Deal and dealt with the industrial sector of the economy. It allowed industries to create fair competition which were intended to reduce destructive competition  
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Social Security Act   show
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show (1) unemployment relief agency that received much of the $5 billion allocated to FDR by the Emergency Relief Allocation Act of 1935;  
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show a protest action in which workers stopped working and refused to leave the factory  
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fireside chats   show
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show People tried to withdraw money from banks but couldn't because some banks didn't have the money because they had invested it in stocks,  
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Oakies   show
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Bread Lines   show
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show American photographer who recorded the Great Depression by taking pictures of the unemployed and rural poor, Sent out by the government to record the Great Depression by taking pictures, she took the picture "Migrant Mother".  
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Eleanor Roosevelt   show
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Tennessee Valley Authority   show
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show 1935, provided education jobs counseling and recreation for young people. part time positions at schools for students allowed for aid in h.s. college and grad school. part time jobs for drop outs  
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Huey Long   show
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Brain Trust   show
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show A situation in which prices are declining  
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show was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman ever appointed to the cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition  
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show (FDR) 1933 , gave the President power over the banking system and set up a system by which banks would be reorganized or reopened  
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show Despite the continuation of the Depression, Democrats did well in the midterm elections in November 1934. In the Spring of 1935 Roosevelt set out on his 'Second New Deal' new focus of security, regulation and planned development was put in place.  
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